Thank you for highlighting the impending hotel strike ("DEADLOCK", #18). It looks like neither the politicised unions nor the hotel owners care about the country, which can go to the dogs so long as their own selfish concerns about money and power are met. These two are holding the country's tourism industry to ransom. By not negotiating seriously, they're playing dangerous brinkmanship. They better both wake up and start talking. Otherwise they'll end up taking themselves and this country down with them.

(Name withheld on request)
Kathmandu